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"If someone finds out about us, I'm afraid our reputation will be really bad." Huo Teng took this sentence and teased Marian in turn.

Ms. Marianne pretended to be angry and said, "Isn't it to make you invincible on the battlefield?"

The two pushed open the wine cellar.

Soon, Huo Teng found the third wall, under a pile of rotten boards, and found that there was a hole behind it.

Stretching out his hand to dig in, Huo Teng quickly found a large box half a meter square.

Is this Skork's treasure?

Huo Teng frowned a little, wasn't he cheated by Skok?

But when he opened the box, Huo Teng swallowed deeply.

This skoke, you can be bold, the top of the box actually stores the title deed of the monastery!

In other words, since Andreas took office, he has relied on his face and has not obtained the wealth of the church at all.

In addition, there are hundreds of finely crafted gold and silver coins in the box, which are much better than the junk goods in circulation, and the value of course has not decreased.In addition to the church's land deeds and money, the documents of Skok's manors, village properties, workshops, etc. in various places are mixed in it.It's just that most of them are useless, and the land and workshops have long been taken back by the original owners.

Huo Teng picked up the cloth at the bottom.

After it was opened, what was inside...was a letter between the bishop of Göttingen, Matt, and his mistress.

Skork was able to collect this thing?

Chapter 36 Leave note first

Marianne couldn't understand the text, but Huo Teng had learned Latin and could understand the meaning of the text.

Bishop Matt was probably confident that few of the nobles in Göttingen County could read, so he blew himself up in the letter very hotly. He wanted to arrange for his illegitimate son to live in his mistress's house as a foster child of the nobles. Train him as a knight.

"Oh? Our bishop Matt has a really special mind. Others send their youngest sons to be priests, but he brings out the illegitimate sons to become knights." Huo Teng closed the letter mockingly.

Well, no wonder Bishop Matt always wanted to pursue this matter after Skok's death. It turned out that the two groups were deeply involved.

Bishop Matt is a rare bishop who was promoted completely from the poor. This year is already the age of Microsoft.Huo Teng does not despise the rise of the poor, but Bishop Matt was able to climb up, not because of his own efforts, but because he tried his best to squeeze the parishioners, from tithes to selling various "sacred objects" ', relying on an unconscionable income, Matt was able to succeed in the position.

Although he learned Latin by self-study, the route was wrong, and the truth that the more knowledge the more reactionary is not wrong.

When Bishop Matt is handsome in front of people, he is an old whore who seduces ladies to bed, and a cheapskate who cares about pennies.After the illegitimate child was born, he tried every means to become the godfather of the illegitimate child, and now he arranged a host family for the illegitimate child. He clearly wanted the child to become a nobleman, be a knight to inherit the territory, and leave his offspring behind.

"Bishop Matt still has an illegitimate child?" Marianne opened her mouth slightly, but she didn't expect that Skok, who had died, left her with a mystery.

"Yes. It's in the next county, but it belongs to the Diocese of Göttingen County. The master probably thought it was his son. I didn't expect that the godfather of the child is actually the real father." Huo Teng flicked the letter paper, Said: "This is good, the handle has fallen into our hands."

Dioceses do not overlap with counties and villages. The early dioceses were very large, often covering several counties or even half of the principality. Now, as the members of the church become redundant, the dioceses are getting smaller and smaller.Correspondingly, the proportion of priests who need to be supported per thousand people is also increasing.

"Then here comes the question, Bishop Matt, is there any collusion with Schmalen?" Huo Teng suddenly thought of this crucial question, and couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.

Generally speaking, bishops will not easily interfere in local wars.But not without exceptions.Many bishops are secular nobles who will lead the monks and warriors of the monastery and go out with their brothers.

If Bishop Matt backstabs Conoza and Göttingenburg in the back, no matter how smooth the battle on the front line is, there will be serious problems.

"No way... It doesn't seem right. Dean Andreas seems to have talked with Schmalen's emissary before. But recently he turned his face." Marianne covered her forehead and shook, "You men's affairs are too complicated .”

I would rather trust it to have it than to trust it to have nothing.

Huo Teng hid the evidence well, and didn't bother to count the money. Instead, he asked Marianne to tell Mrs. Sharah: "I want to summon the knights in the territory."

Leaving the Marian Manor, the more Huo Teng thought about it, the more he felt that Bishop Matt was suspicious, so he squeezed out a limited amount and recruited more peasant archers and spearmen, and placed them near the Göttingen Church.

Then, Huo Teng started the war mobilization.

At present, he has two teams of peasants on horseback and archers. These soldiers are fine against the enemy's auxiliary army, but they are no better than Muggles against the regular army.

So Huo Teng chose to recruit another team of captain archers and a team of rangers to fill the long-range gap with advanced units.

As the cornerstone of warfare, infantry is always the key to victory or defeat.Huo Teng had to spend a lot of money and recruited five teams of peasant spearmen and two teams of forest axemen as a unique move.

The money flowed down like running water, and the recruitment of the military camp was time-sensitive, so Huo Teng could only wait while communicating with other nobles.

It would be nice if there were quality melee units.

Huo Teng thought regretfully.

……

Fort Millhouse.

The name of the city is naturally a typical German style.Unlike the mages who teleport around in World of Warcraft, the Millhouse people don't know magic, they only know the technology of copper mining.

However, the light of technology and civilization in the Middle Ages can only be found in monasteries that have mastered cultural technology.

In addition to designing molds for printing copper coins, those craftsmen who endured the noise of deafness also only recognized the protection of the church.

Who made ordinary nobles look more hateful than robbers?

Therefore, the copper mines of the Millhouse people were either sent to the monastery to be minted into rough copper coins, or were made into expensive copper wares by artisans.Ordinary people don't benefit much, and their lives are poor.

The people hurrying between the castles had dull expressions and dull eyes.

This is not only because of Schmalen's squeeze, but also because of the influx of a large number of robbers in the castle, who did all kinds of evil and ran amok.Robbery on night streets, sneak into shops in the middle of the night to steal.Thanks to their efforts, the only remaining businesses in the city withered.

"I see, I don't need to report anymore. The most important task right now is to seize Göttingen County. If the Millhouse people are dissatisfied with me, they can wait until the war is over." Schmallen paced around, reprimanded subordinates.

Robber knights can rob if they want.

What would you not like to lose some property for the lord?

"My lord, we have assembled 67 knights, more than 500 retinues, and infantry sergeants. We can gather hundreds of cavalry and nearly [-] foot soldiers! There are also almost the same number of robbers and robber knights. Support us, Fort Millhouse, we are invincible!" Schmallen's stable master came to report on the formation of the army.

Schmalen, who bet everything, organized an intervention army of almost a thousand people.This number is a huge number that can only be condensed by Grand Duke Diodoric.

For example, in the Kingdom of France, the army that the king can control and mobilize may not be as good as this number.After all, the territory of the whole country has been firmly controlled by the local nobles during the replacement of the Carolingian and Capetian dynasties.The king is a Balinese lord.

Schmalen couldn't wait any longer, so he decided to send troops to the northwest to attack Göttingen County that day.

When he came to the front line, he ordered the robber knight Henrik: "You were defeated here, you lead the way."

Henrik obediently moved forward with another knight who was traveling with him.

"What's your name? I don't think I've seen you before." Henryk couldn't help but wonder.

But this knight pulled off his helmet and said with a smile, "You can just call me Jeffrey. I have been wandering outside for many years, and only recently came to Fort Millhouse to make a lot of money."

"Jeffrey? What a strange name."

Henrik didn't think much, and continued to wait for the army to move forward.

But Jeffrey, who was following him, kept signaling his subordinates to be 'missing', and reported Schmaelen's march information to Horten.

It can be said that from the first step, Schmallen lost a move.

Chapter 37 The Expectation of Becoming an Earl

gottingenburg.

A total of 80 knights from the territory stood in the hall, together with about 20 knights from the newly rebuilt Inner Palace Knights, Connorsa, Horten, Jones, and Amelia, who had suffered heavy casualties, formed the brotherhood. Tingen Knights 104 will.

Someone may ask, isn't there at least 100 knight families living in Göttingen County?Why only 80 knights came.

The answer to this question is also simple.

The feudal obligations of Göttingen County only required 80 knights at the beginning of the division.The surplus of more than 20 people actually reproduced naturally during the subsequent process of reclaiming forests and acquiring land from swamps.They serve other knights of the same rank, or baronets of a higher rank, but do not have feudal obligations to the Countess Conosha.

Such as the Knights of the Inner Palace, in fact, knights without territory are loyal to Conosha, and there is no feudal contract relationship.

Without feudal obligations, a paradoxical relationship such as 'my vassal's vassal is not my vassal' is formed.

And even if everyone knows that there are a lot of extra knights in the territory, the feudal obligations cannot be easily changed.This is the same as Schmallen's vain attempt to centralize land redistribution, both of which are fatal taboos.The Doomsday Book compiled by William the Conqueror when he landed in England. This Doomsday Judgment refers to the fact that he inspected the territory so carefully that it was like the Doomsday Judgment that was circulated at the time.

Therefore, feudal obligations determine how many soldiers can be dispatched from this territory.It doesn't matter how rich the territory is, how many soldiers will be dispatched.

This is why many areas are obviously very rich, but they cannot mobilize combat power.For when feudal duties were initially divided, it was likely that very few were required.As a result, when they wanted to increase their combat effectiveness, they were opposed for a long time. The final result was that the lords often died of wealthy families.

There is money and no soldiers.

Connorsa, who was wearing a solemn black robe and light makeup, quietly wiped off the sweat from her hands.She nervously watched Huo Teng, who was young and vigorous, and Jones and Amelia beside him.A small family is her staunch supporter.The other three barons, each with more than ten cavalry, and many knights with ulterior motives, did not know where their hearts were.

Only half of the newly formed Inner Palace Knights will go out, and the other half, together with the dozens of militia left by Huo Teng, will guard Göttingenburg.

Connorsa, of course a weak woman will not go to war.

This also caused controversy. Many knights believed that the commander should be the older and more famous Baron Kenan, or the Wagner knight who was excellent in sword fighting.

Horten?

A lucky man, except for a group of old farmers who support him, who is willing to support him?

However, when the parliament was officially held, these ordinary knights discovered that there were more than [-] knights standing beside Huo Teng, from the family, from the Marianne family, from the Knights of the Inner Palace, and even the Göttingen Abbey according to the feudal system. The three teams of knights and attendants sent by duty all expressed their willingness to cooperate only under Huo Teng's command.

Oh yes, although the monastery is the territory of God, it must follow the principle of fist in the mortal world.Therefore, some monasteries that have been interfered by the nobles for a long time will provide feudal obligations to the local lords.This is also a problem that the Christian church severely condemns, but cannot get rid of.

"I, have brought 120 regiments of Peasant Spearmen, 80 Peasant Archers, 40 Rangers, 40 Crusader Longbowmen, 80 Mounted Archers, and 40 Greataxemen. I, as a soldier, and 30 knights, supported by hundreds of retinues, sergeants, and peasant soldiers, will certainly be able to defeat Schmalun's useless army. If any of the other gentlemen thinks I am incompetent, I think I can use the sword. Decide the winner."

Adding points to his personal skills and gaining the blessing of force, Huo Teng stood in the hall with a tall and tall figure. Even though the chain mail on his body was very ordinary, it did not prevent him from scaring off a group of competitors.

Baron Kenan, who is about fifty years old, is the most prestigious of the three barons.

He clenched his sword tightly, but looking at Huo Teng's burly figure, he could only admit that he was old with hatred.

Another well-known Wagner knight had already drawn his sword and stood in front of Huo Teng.

"Although I know your army is huge, Huo Teng, I hope to challenge you." Knight Wagner said.

Although he had participated in the fair and experienced two wars, Knight Wagner recognized Huo Teng's ability, but as a knight, he couldn't swallow this breath.

Huo Teng grew up in a monastery, so he couldn't even be better at swordsmanship than ordinary knights, right?

However, Horten disappointed Wagner.

The skill of killing warriors made Huo Teng's swordsmanship open and close, slashing horizontally and stabbing horizontally, aiming at killing and wounding the enemy.

But in the middle and early middle ages, swordsmanship was not developed to the point that everyone could learn it.Wagner's swordsmanship is nothing more than the three-axe swordsmanship, holding the long sword high and fighting fiercely.

The two stood in the middle of the field and ping-pong-pong, and after a few blows, the onlookers could also notice that Cavaliers Wagner had fallen into a disadvantage.

Huo Teng pinged, and suddenly raised his sword forcefully, knocking Wagner's sword away.

"Okay, I'm not as skilled as others."

The challenger withdrew, and Huo Teng also officially got Conosha's appointment: "I... Conosha von Nosenberg, appointed Huo Teng Bowenden as the commander of this expedition, I hope you can use me sword, bring back your victory."

With that said, Conosha untied the sword from her waist and presented it to Huo Teng.

After hearing this, Huo Teng couldn't help smiling: "I remember, the original meaning of the earl is the commander, do you mean..."

Conuosha did not expect that Huo Teng would dare to make fun of herself quietly in such a public place. She stomped her foot, but she still had to maintain her identity in front of the public, so she couldn't help gritting her teeth: "Catch Shi Mulun first, we will To give you a title. Be a baron or something."

In the Middle Ages, although various countries had various rank titles, in general, knight-baron-earl-king was a relatively clear route.

Moreover, these so-called names have their meanings.For example, the earl, which originally meant a commander, came from a general in the Roman Empire; the duke, the governor, also came from the Roman Empire.Others, such as marquis and duke, are actually on the same level as earls.

With a slight smile, Huo Teng got up and greeted the rest of the knights: "Don't be dumbfounded, it's time for us to fight to defend our homeland."

Having established a commander, the knights had no other thought, they struck their swords against their shields and shouted: "God bless us!"

Then, the knights' attendants pushed open the gate, and hundreds of knights, sergeants, and militiamen wearing protective gear and swords from various territories raised their weapons high: "God bless us!"

Huo Teng simply asked the servant to bring the hundred gold coins he had prepared.

"As the commander, I am willing to take out a hundred gold coins to reward anyone who kills the most heroic enemy!"

Suddenly, there was another commotion in the square.

Chapter 38 Lose First

The currencies of the Holy Roman Empire varied greatly.Since no one stipulated that the right to mint coins belonged to the emperor, monasteries in various places had their own qualifications to mint coins.

Because of this, although he doesn't usually introduce it, Huo Teng actually has all kinds of gold and silver coins in his hand.Nomisma, Solide and even Sur in France and so on.There is even no way to give a unified name, because Shenluo's gold coins can be used in all kinds of gold coins, and the emperor's minted coins cannot represent the official designated currency.

But despite this, it is still a crazy and bold decision to reward the entire army with hundreds of gold coins.Because preparing a set of knight equipment from scratch, helmet, chain mail, sword, spear and horse, with high standards, only needs more than 20 gold coins.

In other words, Huo Teng took out enough awards for five people to become knights.

In the entire territory, except for Countess Conoza and Abbot Andreas, no one can mobilize such a large amount of wealth.The knights couldn't help wondering where Huo Teng got the money.